Big local sports news last night. The Islanders defeated a gutsy and depleted Rangers team at the Garden. The Isles' Jason Blake had a hat trick, and the Rangers came back from a 4-1 deficit but fell short in an exciting game.
And with the Knicks off last night and the Giants and Jets not doing anything this week other than preparing for games several days from now, surely the Islanders-Rangers game would be on the back page of Newsday, the Long Island paper of record (keep dreaming, LI Press). The Island is full of both Islander and Ranger fans, so whenever these two teams tangle, there's gonna be lots of chatter the next day.
So naturally, this was Newsday's back cover today:
If you squint real close, you can see that there was a hockey game last night.
Meanwhile, we are treated to some Ken Davidoff interview with Darryl Strawberry where he says that Jeter should be nicer to A-Rod. (Duh.) The article, which runs on the prime left-hand page behind the cover, is merely a half-page of text illustrated with a gigantic photo of the circa mid-1980s Mets smiling in the dugout, showing what a happy family they were. (We guess a photo of those same Mets boozing and brawling with each other wasn't available.)
On the right-hand page we get an article on the Mets (the current Mets) trying to get Barry Zito (which we grant is somewhat relevant, though the Zito saga will likely run for days), and some article from the AP wire where Pete Rose says Mark McGwire belongs in the Hall of Fame, which is as newsworthy as the late Pinochet saying Pol Pot deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Oh, to get to the Isles-Rangers coverage, you have to dig three pages deeper, past articles on the Giants, Jets, Knicks, and the Denver Nuggets (who acquired Allen Iverson).
Thank you, hometown paper!
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